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Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators (2018)
Journal Article
Moon, C., Uskul, A., & Weick, M. (2019). Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators. Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, 3(3), 137-145. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts5.40

Although politeness is an important concern in communications across cultures, a prevalent assumption in psychology is that East Asians are more inclined to be polite than members of other cultural groups due to prevalent cultural norms. Yet, evidenc... Read More about Cultural differences in politeness as a function of status relations: Comparing South Korean and British communicators.

An intermittent hypercaloric diet alters gut microbiota, prefrontal cortical gene expression and social behaviours in rats (2018)
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Reichelt, A., Loughman, A., Bernard, A., Raipuria, M., Abbott, K., Dachtler, J., …Moore, R. (2020). An intermittent hypercaloric diet alters gut microbiota, prefrontal cortical gene expression and social behaviours in rats. Nutritional Neuroscience, 23(8), 613-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/1028415x.2018.1537169

Objectives: Excessive consumption of high fat and high sugar (HFHS) diets alters reward processing, behaviour, and changes gut microbiota profiles. Previous studies in gnotobiotic mice also provide evidence that these gut microorganisms may influence... Read More about An intermittent hypercaloric diet alters gut microbiota, prefrontal cortical gene expression and social behaviours in rats.

Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms (2018)
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Davis, P. E., Webster, L. A., Fernyhough, C., Ralston, K., Kola-Palmer, S., & Stain, H. J. (2019). Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms. Psychiatry Research, 271, 150-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.046

Hallucination and dissociation have been found to be associated with imaginary friend play in childhood (CIC). Past studies have not investigated how this play relates to adult prodromal symptoms or how childhood adversity mediates the relationship.... Read More about Adult report of childhood imaginary companions and adversity relates to concurrent prodromal psychosis symptoms.

Impact of increasing the proportion of healthier foods available on energy purchased in worksite cafeterias: A stepped wedge randomized controlled pilot trial (2018)
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Pechey, R., Cartwright, E., Pilling, M., Hollands, G., Vasiljevic, M., Jebb, S., & Marteau, T. (2018). Impact of increasing the proportion of healthier foods available on energy purchased in worksite cafeterias: A stepped wedge randomized controlled pilot trial. Appetite, 133, 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.11.013

Increasing the proportion of healthier foods available could encourage healthier consumption, but evidence to date is limited in scope and quality. The current study aimed to: (a) examine the feasibility and acceptability of intervening to change pro... Read More about Impact of increasing the proportion of healthier foods available on energy purchased in worksite cafeterias: A stepped wedge randomized controlled pilot trial.

A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences (2018)
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Buckley, M. G., & Bast, T. (2018). A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences. Hippocampus, 28(11), 796-812. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.22992

Watermaze tests of place learning and memory in rodents and corresponding reverse‐translated human paradigms in real or virtual environments are key tools to study hippocampal function. In common variants, the animal or human participant has to find... Read More about A new human delayed-matching-to-place test in a virtual environment reverse-translated from the rodent watermaze paradigm: characterization of performance measures and sex differences.

Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting (2018)
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Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2020). Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting. Cortex, 122, 170-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.007

The relationship between covert shift of attention and the oculomotor system has been the subject of numerous studies. A widely held view, known as Premotor Theory, is that covert attention depends upon activation of the oculomotor system. However, r... Read More about Covert Attention Beyond the Range of Eye-movements: Evidence for a Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous orienting.

Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision (2018)
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Negen, J., Wen, L., Thaler, L., & Nardini, M. (2018). Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 16880. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35046-7

Humans are effective at dealing with noisy, probabilistic information in familiar settings. One hallmark of this is Bayesian Cue Combination: combining multiple noisy estimates to increase precision beyond the best single estimate, taking into accoun... Read More about Bayes-Like Integration of a New Sensory Skill with Vision.

The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game (2018)
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Taheri, M., Rotshtein, P., & Beierholm, U. (2018). The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game. PLoS ONE, 13(11), Article e0205730. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205730

Cooperation and competition are vital for human survival and for social progress. In this study we examine the impact of external (environmental) and internal (individual differences) factors on the tendency to cooperate or compete in social conflict... Read More about The effect of attachment and environmental manipulations on cooperative behavior in the prisoner’s dilemma game.